Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)
HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1969 and 1970
In the ras<> of our vase, the elaboration of the design shows some peculiarities, for example: the width of each flower surpasses the height of it. or the petals in the middle are flatly composed and the two of them In the center are much simplified. Moreover, the leaves surrounding the flowers are arranged loosely and — in a way — carelessly. It is also nolicahle that these leaves do not encircle the flowers regularlv although the stem winds more or circles. At the meeting point of inserted motive is a hud or a small f kind of elaboration of the lotus scrol used among brocade patterns. The lotus scrolls cover the entire the vase evenly, hut — on the whole — have the dominating force not the lines of tin• are eight different colours, including the pale turquoise-blue background, dark green and pale green, deep coball-bhie. reddish brown, stems the lower. This Willi surface of the colours pah dh red flowers of five petals am! walls, we find a row of "lotus iside with a small green pattern. with small eaves", with The second thin wires. Tin The others are white and the "Ming pink". The fool-ring is decorated with while an< green leaves. Above these, on the botlom of tin red colour on the outside part and cobalt-blue row of '"lotus leaves" is yellow. Inder the rim id' the vase, ihe decoration is simple, all the colours of the vase are repealed in narrow stripes. In the next row trefoil leaves are lined up. There is no trace of split-wires on the vase. This fad seems at first to contradict the dating of it to the first half of the 16th century.- hut next lo the simple form and decoration scheme, we often find readjustment of the cloisonné round the wires where the places sufhired from the excess of solder. In other places the globules of solder filled up the narrow corners up to the surface with its silvery-green colour. ( )n the surface we also find many pin-holes and other u iievenness caused hv the firing. T. II. 1 Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, Faber and Faber, London, 1962. Chapter: The Cliing-lai Mvth, 60-6. - Idem. 44, 45, 69 and III— 3.
